Home made roof rack

Hello all,

I'm new to this site, and thought it might be worth sharing some pics of the roof rack my friend and I built for his 2nd gen tacoma this past weekend. The goal was simple, low profile, and as light as possible. It bolts to the rails installed on his snug top and measures about 4'x7'

He will finish it off with paint and a fairing.

 

nice..chrome moly steel?

 

Very cool! Nice work ​

 

It' not chromoly, just HREW. Chromoly would have been needless overkill and too spendy for a roof rack like this.

 

Nice welds ! Somebody knows how to weld.

 

I am looking to do this exact same thing, same cab configuration/ cap and all. thanks for the inspiration!

 

Nice work!

 

Take my money!

 

what he said, I will buy one if you make it all the way to the windshield

 

I can't imagine shipping to PA would be affordable. Regarding the length, neither of us felt comfortable with any more unsupported run of tubing with out adding a vertical side bar. His primary goal was to be able to carry a 17 foot canoe, to the rack was designed with this in mind.

 

Depending on where you are in nor-cal, I could probably build you one. I would need the truck here at my house in 96093 though.

We discovered that whomever mounted the tracks on the snugtop didn't align them perfectly so the mounting foot spacing was off on one side. We elected to center the rack to the truck, and then let the mounting feet land where ever they had to. Kinda frustrating considering that a "professional" installed the tracks.....

 

fair enough, that/s the issue I have had in mind.

 

nice!

 

Good job!

 

Welcome and nice work

 

I bet if you hooked up your antenna wire to that you could get radio stations from Russia. Again, nice job.

 

Why you have to tempt me? Im probably not going to be up that way for some time. But hey, if something does come up you may hear from me again.